INTO THE DALES - A Northern Coast to Coast Walk: From St Bees to Robin Hood's Bay - page 73

Whitsundale Beck near Ravenseat
Keeping on the west side of Whitsundale Beck, continue along its course
to fenced enclosures at Fawcett Intake, where a stile facilitates onward
progress. The route through the dale tends to keep above the stream, pre-
ferring the flanks of adjoining moorland to the twists and turns of the dale
bottom. On approaching Ravenseat the route swings round beside a wall
to reach New Gill, and then down to meet a minor road by which it enters
this remote farming community.
Cross the bridge at Ravenseat and immediately go right, crossing a
stream to a gate. Pass through the gate, and shortly turn right again
through a gated stile setting the route off along the eastern bank of Whit-
sundale Beck.
The onward route is never in doubt. Pleasant walking now ensues, the
beck never far distant and providing some attractive waterfalls to en-
hance an already appealing scene. Continue easily, negotiating a num-
ber of gates through walls, climbing half-left to a barn, and then by a
slightly higher level to the quite surprising scenery of How Edge Scars and
Oven Mouth, where, over countless years, the stream has done remark-
able things to the landscape. If by chance you wander inadvertently off
the route onto a conspicuous lower path, you are brought much closer to
Oven Mouth, escaping from the folds of the stream by a steeply ascending
path that climbs left alongside a wall.